Disable variable auto-declaration

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm curious as to how to stop PHP from automatically declaring any variable. Setup is Apache on a Unix machine. This makes it hard to track variable misspellings and invalid array usage since everything defaults to NULL.

Side note: when I installed PHP onto my Win2k machine, it requires variables to be initialized (otherwise it gives a "undefined variable" error). But on our Unix/Apache setup it defaults everything. Annoying! :-) I checked PHPInfo for clues but couldn't find where this "flag" would be.

Thanks for any help.

[toma42]

Change the php.ini from
error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
to
error_reporting=E_ALL

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you can also do this on a per-script basis (for debugging)

just put

error_reporting(E_ALL);

at the top of the script.